{"product_id":"a-lifes-music-by-andrei-makine-9780340820094","title":"A Life's Music","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlexei Berg's father is a well-known dramatist and his mother an opera singer, but in late 1930s Russia both parents suffer constant suspicion and harassment under Stalin's reign of terror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo great is Alexei's musical talent that he is allowed to continue his studies, but two days before his first concert in May 1941, he arrives home to find his parents being arrested. He flees, abandoning his budding career as a concert pianist, and assumes the identity of a dead Russian conscript to fight against the advancing Germans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the war is over he stays on as a general's driver, continuing to keep his real identity hidden until a moment of folly reveals the truth and earns him 10 years in a prison camp. But despite a life of misfortune, Alexei remains unbroken, and in a snowbound railway station in the middle of the Urals, he tells his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Life's Music\u003c\/em\u003e by Andreï Makine is a poignant tale of perseverance and the enduring power of the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595662704876,"sku":"9780340820094","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780340820094-a-life-s-music.jpg?v=1777899579","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-lifes-music-by-andrei-makine-9780340820094","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}